but none could offer a definitive diagnosis for their twins. >> not knowing what is going on, having the doctors grab us and putting needles inside of us. and when we were younger we had no clue what was going on. >> i just remember feeling overwhelmed that our babies were going through so many things. it was really disheartening. >> the twins were diagnosed as having cerebral palsy. >> we had something now that we couldrab hd of and move forward with. and we knew that cerebral palsy was not a progressive disorder. what you have is what you have it doesn't get worse. >> things did get worse. >> one or the other would be throwing up or alexis would be higher functioning in the morning and then she would be falling down and hurting herself. >> literally by 10:30, 11:00 in the morning she could no longer walk or no longer sit up and this is at age five-and-a-half. she could no longer swallow food. she lost 20% of her body weight >> retta kept researching the symptoms and possible treatments. she found an article that changed everything. >> i came across an article that was titled deft d